Barwon Water (Barwon Region Water Corporation) is Victoria’s largest regional urban water corporation. We have a proud history supporting regional prosperity by providing excellence in water, sewerage and recycled water services to our customers and the community for more than 110 years.
Our vision is for an economically, socially and environmentally prosperous region.
Our mission is to strengthen our region's economy liveability and sustainability through the delivery of high quality and affordable water and sewerage services.
At Barwon Water, we lead, we learn, we deliver. And we care about a better future.
Join us and be part of a tram that sets ambitious targets to support a thriving community and region.
Working at Barwon Water
Barwon Water is one on the region’s largest and most progressive employers. Barwon Asset Solutions (BAS) is a 100% locally-based maintenance services and project management company, and a wholly-owned subsidiary.
We care for our customers, community, region, the environment and each other. And we are always looking for like-minded people to join our team.
Our Values
- Courageous
- Caring
- Safe
- Inclusive
- Accountable
Employee benefits
Guess What? We care about you.
We know that a happy and healthy workforce is an engaged and productive one.
You will be offered a range of great benefits including work variety, flexible leave options, professional development opportunities and award-winning health and wellbeing program including a dedicated Employee Assistance Program for First Nations employees.
Not to mention, our award winning Head Office has purpose built facilities including a parent’s room, mindfulness room and end of trip facilities featuring change rooms and even a secure lock up for your bicycle.
Belonging and Inclusion
We celebrate our diversity, show respect and appreciate the unique talents and perspectives that each of us brings to work each day.
We know that diverse voices means bring different views and experiences together to help us find the best solutions in our work.
We recognise that while we can set diversity targets and measure progress in numbers, inclusion is deeper and harder to measure. An inclusive workplace asks the question: is our culture able to support every employee to contribute, optimise their potential, grow, and be valued for their perspective, skills and for who they are?
In our workplace we all take responsibility to learn about how our colleagues can be supported to perform at their best.
An inclusive culture is the responsibility of every employee individually and collectively. That is why evidence-based diversity and inclusion training is provided to all our employees.
Early Career Opportunities
Looking to kick start your career?
Through key industry and tertiary partnerships, we offer a number of programs for early-career development.
Whether you’re a trainee or apprentice, a recent university graduate or even PhD candidate, explore your options with us.
Options include:
- Traineeships
- Graduate Program
- Summer Internships
- Scholarships and industry-based internships
Our Recruitment Process
Apply online
If you’ve found the job you’re looking for and think you would be a good fit, apply online.
If you would like to discuss the job before you apply, please get in touch. Most of our vacancies include a direct phone number; usually the person you’ll be reporting to if you’re successful in landing the role!
You will receive an automatic acknowledgement of receipt of your application within 48 hours. If you’ve progressed to the next stage of the selection process, you’ll hear from a member of our People (human resources) team.
If you haven’t heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, your application hasn’t progressed.
Unfortunately, we don’t notify unsuccessful applicants directly.
Please note, we don’t accept speculative applications, and we won’t keep your résumé on-file for potential future openings.
Our interview process
Interviews can be a bit daunting but we encourage you to be as relaxed as possible about the interview experience.
We’ve read your application and we like what we see. Now we want to know a bit more about you.
As far as possible, we conduct our interviews in an informal and conversational style.
Starting right
Congratulations we are so excited that you have chosen Barwon Water to further your career.
We invite you to dive into your career with us and take advantage of all the opportunities you will be presented with during your employment with Baron Water.
As part of your onboarding experience with us, we are committed to ensuring that you feel as welcomed and supported as possible. Just some of the things you can expect as part of our 12 month Employee Onboarding Experience; a site tour where you will be spending the day out on site visiting some of our reservoirs and treatment plants. This is a great way to get to know the other new joiners and connect our work here across our service region that expands over 8,000 square kilometres to the physical delivery of water to our customers.
You will also take part in a Connection to Country excursion to one of the many culturally significant sites located across our region and is hosted by the Traditional Owners from the Wadawarrung community. This in depth program provides the foundation for creating an appropriate and respectful workplace culture for all employees.
